ENGLISH SUMMARY : Background: There is a growing body of literature relating to the establishment of rural clinical training platforms for medical students describing many positive outcomes, particularly in the case of ...

ENGLISH SUMMARY : Background: Rural clinical training is not widely established or documented for allied health sciences (AHS) learners. This article focuses on the experiences of AHS learners from Stellenbosch University’s ...

Background. To generate evidence in and for health professions education (HPE) that can enable reform and establish new relevance, a comprehensive
HPE research foundation is required. Gaps identified in the sub-Saharan ...

Background: Objective structured clinical examination (OSCE) examiner training is widely employed to address some of
the reliability and validity issues that accompany the use of this assessment tool. An OSCE skills course ...

ENGLISH SUMMARY : Background: Curriculum review is a dynamic, iterative process, and the effect of change may not always be wholly predictable. At Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa revision of the MB,ChB ...

Many forms of simulation, as a teaching strategy, have been used successfully over the last few decades. Some of the advantages thereof in health sciences education are that it is a learner-centered training modality that ...

ENGLISH SUMMARY : The practice of situating academic development practitioners within faculties poses challenges for practitioners from outside the particular discipline. Literature highlights how discourse and culture
create ...

Objectives: The Faculty of Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, has
undergraduate programmes for several disciplines; these programmes
need clinical supervisors to teach their students in the clinical settings.
The ...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Studies, mostly done with final-year medical students and doctors, show
that the confidence level with which a clinical skill is performed is not a
reliable benchmark of actual clinical competence. This ...

Background. Patient-centred care is widely acknowledged as important to achieve improved patient outcomes in healthcare. Therefore, it is vital that medical schools should foster this attitude in their students. Studies ...

ENGLISH SUMMARY : Background. Assessment is an essential component of a medical curriculum. High-stakes exit-level assessment used for licensing and certification purposes needs to be sound. Even though criteria for ...

E-learning has the potential to support the development of expertise in clinical reasoning by being able to provide students with interactive learning experiences, exposure to multiple cases, and opportunities for deliberate ...

Background. The primary aim of undergraduate medical training at South African medical schools is to prepare the graduates adequately for internship. If we are to attain this objective, it is crucial to evaluate the ability ...

Background: The development of research capacity among undergraduates is an important intervention in countering the documented decrease in medical and health sciences researchers. The literature on undergraduate research ...

Background. Self-directed learning (SDL) is the essential mechanism of lifelong learning, which, in turn, is required for medical professionals to maintain
competency because of advancing technology and constantly evolving ...

Background. Problem-based learning (PBL) has been adopted across many health professions training institutions. Small-group student tutorials are a major component of PBL. Facilitator feedback during a tutorial is a key ...

ENGLISH SUMMARY : Background: Feedback delivery within a Problem Based Learning tutorial is a key activity for facilitators in order to
enhance student learning. The purpose of this study was to explore students’ experiences ...